Blocking of Telegram messenger service in Russian Federation to take several hours

In Moscow, the Telegram app was still functioning as normal early on Monday afternoon.

"The decision of Tagansky District Court of Moscow on the restricted access to internet resources of the organizer of the information dissemination in the Telegram Messenger Limited Liability Partnership was submitted to Roskomnadzor".

A Russian court on Friday ruled to ban popular instant messaging service "Telegram" over its failure to provide access to the Russian security services to users' encrypted messages.

Russia's state media watchdog Roskomnadzor asked the court to ban Telegram "immediately" after its ruling.

Roskomnadzor intends to take measures to lock tools to use is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Telegram messenger. Durov has long said he will reject any attempt by the country's security services to gain backdoor access to the app. In September, law enforcement authorities drew up administrative protocols against Telegram because of law violation, as Durov failed to reply for the request.

Durov had ordered Telegram's lawyers not to attend the court hearing on April 13, calling it "a farce", and Judge Yulia Smolina issued the ruling less than 20 minutes after opening the session.

Telegram representatives insist that handing over of the encryption keys is technically impossible.

Telegram had refused a request by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to give them access to users' encrypted messages. On March 19, the lawsuit was dismissed.

In July 2017, the FSB demanded that Telegram provide the keys to decrypt user messages citing its own administrative order, which established the procedure for providing the encryption keys. After the court verdict was announced, they said the planned to file an appeal.

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